Iran is one of the richest countries in the Middle East. The size of Iran is just slightly bigger than that of Alaska. The country is dominated by rugged mountain ridges that separate basins from one another. The northern side of Iran is covered by dense rain forests called Shomal or The Jungles of Iran. The east is covered with desert basins as well as some salt lakes.
Iran is full of many different people that all were unified through a shared Persian language and culture. Iran hosts more than one million refugees, mainly from Afghanistan and Iraq. The majority of the population speaks the official language, Persian. According to the CIA factbook around 79% of the population is Indo-European-ethno-Linguistic group and 90 to 95% of the countries population are Muslims.
